- Title Information
- Title
- Wanton, Joseph Jr. to Brown, John
- Subtitle
- June 20, 1766
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Wanton, Joseph
- Name Part:
Date
- 1731-1780
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Brown, John
- Name Part:
Date
- 1722-1787
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- recipient
- Genre (aat)
- letters (correspondence)
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Code (MARC Country Code)
- riu
- Place Term:
Text
- Newport, RI
- Date Created
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
- 1766-06-20
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 2 p.
- Abstract
- Letter from Joseph Wanton, Jr., a Newport merchant and slave trader, to John Brown, concerning some "paper hangings," dated June 20, 1766. In a postscript, Wanton requests permission to inspect the account book from the recently completed voyage of the Sally, in hopes of gleaning information about trading conditions on the African coast.
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Collection:")
- Title Information
- Title
- University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice
- Identifier:
COLID
- 17
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/slaveryandjustice
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="JCB Manuscript ID")
- BFBR 340-8-6/20/66
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1157641152548162
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.